1957 American League (AL) Expanded Standings

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1957 AL | NL League Yearly Summary - Expanded Standings: AL | NL - Expanded Leaderboards: AL | ML | NL -
Players: Batting - Pitching - Fielding -
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League Splits - Bat: ML-NL-AL - Pitch: ML-NL-AL

American League

 Tm   W   L   W-L%   GB   GBs |  R   RA  pythW-L Luck| Home  Road ExInn 1-Run vs.RH vs.LH ≥.500 <.500|
+---+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+-------+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
 NYY  98  56  .636   ---   ---| 4.7  3.5  97-57    1 |48-29 50-27 13-5  30-21 71-41 27-15 53-35 45-21|
 CHW  90  64  .584   8.0   8.0| 4.6  3.7  92-62   -2 |45-32 45-32  8-10 23-27 52-38 38-26 45-43 45-21|
 BOS  82  72  .532  16.0  24.0| 4.7  4.3  83-71   -1 |44-33 38-39  9-7  27-21 61-63 21-9  40-48 42-24|
 DET  78  76  .506  20.0  36.0| 4.0  4.0  77-77    1 |45-32 33-44 13-15 26-29 66-59 12-17 46-42 32-34|
 BAL  76  76  .500  21.0  40.0| 3.9  3.8  78-74   -2 |42-33 34-43 15-12 27-27 55-58 21-18 36-52 40-24|
 CLE  76  77  .497  21.5  42.5| 4.5  4.7  73-80    3 |40-37 36-40  8-9  25-25 52-51 24-26 50-59 26-18|
 KCA  59  94  .386  38.5 144.5| 3.7  4.6  61-92   -2 |37-40 22-54  8-8  24-29 54-85  5-9  36-73 23-21|
 WSH  55  99  .357  43.0 176.0| 3.9  5.2  57-97   -2 |28-49 27-50  6-14 23-26 46-80  9-19 38-72 17-27|

Head-to-Head Records (read across for wins and down the columns for losses)

     |AvgOppRec|BAL BOS CHW CLE DET KCA NYY WSH 
+----+---------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
  BAL|   76-76   --   8  10   9   9  16   9  15
  BOS|   76-77   14  --   8  12  10  16   8  14
  CHW|   74-78   12  14  --  14  11  14   8  17
  CLE|   76-76   12  10   8  --  11  11   9  15
  DET|   76-76   13  12  11  11  --   8  10  13
  KCA|   79-74    5   6   8  11  14  --   3  12
  NYY|   73-79   13  14  14  13  12  19  --  13
  WSH|   79-73    7   8   5   7   9  10   9  --
+----+---------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     |AvgOppRec|BAL BOS CHW CLE DET KCA NYY WSH

Head-to-Head Run Scoring (read across for runs scored and down the columns for runs allowed)

     |BAL BOS CHW CLE DET KCA NYY WSH 
+----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
  BAL  --  78  69 103  69 110  65 103
  BOS 103  --  72 128 102 127  79 110
  CHW  77  93  -- 107 105 101  83 141
  CLE 102 120  80  --  72  91  88 129
  DET  79  87  86  83  --  85  80 114
  KCA  57  77  72 103  95  --  59 100
  NYY  85 116  99 110  89 113  -- 111
  WSH  85  97  88  88  82  83  80  --
+----+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     |BAL BOS CHW CLE DET KCA NYY WSH

Glossary

GBs - Summed Games Back. This was developed by John Dewan of Acta Sports (who publishes a lot of really good baseball books, BTW). He introduced this in a Stat of the Week™. The idea is that you add up how far behind the team is for every team ahead of it in the standings. For example, say the Mets lead the NL EAST with the Braves one game back and the Phillies six back. The Braves are only one game back of the Mets, so GBs=1.0 for them. For the Phillies they are six back of the Mets and five back of the Braves, so their GBs=11.0. It probably isn't a perfect measure of a team's difficulty of getting into first place, but it is likely a better measure than just plain old GB. Note that for the wild card this becomes a bit of a mess, but in this calculation we exclude the current division leaders, to give you a number for just the teams in the current wild card race.
R - Runs scored per game
RA - Runs allowed per game
pythW-L - Pythagorean Win-Loss created by Bill James this estimates a team's Win-Loss record by the runs scored and runs allowed. This is typically more accurate for predicting a team's future record than their actual win-loss record.
Luck - The difference between the team's actual wins and the team's pythagorean wins.
Home - Record in home games.
Road - Record in road games.
ExInn - Record in Extra-inning games.
1-Run - Record in one-run games.
vs.RH - Record in games where the opposing starter was right-handed.
vs.LH - Record in games where the opposing starter was left-handed.
≥.500 - Record in games where the opposing team has a record at or above .500. This is based on the opposing team's record for the entire season.
<.500 - Record in games where the opposing team has a record under .500. This is based on the opposing team's record for the entire season.
L10 - Record in their last 10 games.
L20 - Record in their last 20 games.
L30 - Record in their last 30 games.

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